'I Have No Evidence': Everyone Has A Theory About The Supreme Court Leak
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WASHINGTON ― Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a theory about who leaked the Supreme Court’s bombshell draft opinion on abortion.“It is very, very likely a law clerk for one of the three liberal justices,” Cruz said on his podcast this week, adding that he suspected Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s clerks in particular.
“She is the most partisan of the justices and so she’s the most likely to hire wild-eyed partisans as clerks,” he said.
Cruz is himself a former Supreme Court law clerk, so he knows something about how draft opinions are handled. But he added an important caveat to his theory.
It was only the latest unfounded theory on the Supreme Court leak . . .
> A Newsmax host even suggested Ketanji Brown Jackson leaked the draft even though she hasn’t yet taken her seat on the court; others have floated the names of individual clerks as suspects.
> “By every indication, this was yet another escalation in the radical left’s ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and substitute mob rule for the rule of law,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a typical statement on Tuesday...
> Tom Goldstein, an appellate advocate who has argued dozens of cases before the Supreme Court, theorized Thursday that there are at least two leakers in the abortion case, describing both as bad for the court.
The first leak, Goldstein argued, would have come from a conservative source who told The Wall Street Journal that five justices had voted to overturn Roe, but that Chief Justice John Roberts was trying to pick off Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to join a milquetoast plurality opinion.
“He may be trying to turn another Justice now,” the Journal’s editorial board wrote in the April 26 editorial cited by Goldstein.
The second leaker, he theorized, is a liberal who sent the full opinion to Politico, perhaps feeling justified in doing so by the prior leak to The Wall Street Journal...
> Yet another theory related to the abortion case emerged this week when Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) warned that Democrats would somehow vault Jackson onto the court before her planned swearing-in date later this summer...
> Republicans said the leaker should be punished and that they should be thrown in prison if they lie to federal investigators in the course of a leak investigation. . ."
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